The other day, I had an idea for a project: rather than writing about whatever comes to mind or is in the news on any given day, I would read a an individual blogger’s posts and engage with and respond to them, one blogger at a time, for a week or so, with a focus on individual bloggers who are heavy on writing, light on links.
How would I find them? My starting point was theothermccain.com, where Robert Stacy McCain is heavy on feminism, especially describing and criticizing particularly egregious examples of radical/lesbian feminism, which poses the challenge of engaging with, rather than just parrotting or, to the contrary, objecting to the post — but ideally it would be bloggers who, like myself, are small enough so as to not have tens or hundreds of thousands of page views, and vast numbers of comments, and pure bloggers, rather than journalists with a blogging platform.
So this morning, during a particularly tedious team call (because I work from home), I went to a “big” blog with an enormous blogroll and figured I’d just try to find suitable small opinionated bloggers by randomly clicking on links with unfamiliar names.
It was a bust. Link after link, I was taken to sites that had last updated years ago, or had been made private by the owner, or whether the URL’s website had lapsed or was used for a completely different purpose now.
So at least I don’t feel so bad for not being on the blogroll of any of the prominent bloggers, if they so rarely even update their blogroll, anyway. And that leads me to wonder: how many small-scale bloggers there are out there, typing away in obscurity?
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